Scott Wilsonhttp://scottwilson.ca
Composer and Sound ArtistThu, 15 Nov 2018 09:31:46 +0000en-CAhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8Keynote on Dark Matter at Creations 2018 in Athenshttp://scottwilson.ca/keynote-on-dark-matter-at-creations-2018-in-athens/
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:40:01 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=431Konstantinos Vasilakos and I will present a keynote speech on our Dark Matter project as part of the Creations 2018 Conference in Athens on Friday November 2nd. The theme of the conference is Creating conditions for deeper learning through the combination of the science and the arts. We’ll also be doing workshops with teachers and students on sonification.

]]>Dark Matter at Mantis Festival and Durham Universityhttp://scottwilson.ca/dark-matter-at-mantis-festival-and-durham-university/
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:40:12 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=429We’ll continue with our Dark Matter touring activities with a performances and workshops at Mantis Festival in Manchester on October 28th and at the University of Durham on October 29th.

Manchester October 28th – Martin Harris Centre

Workshop – 11AM

Concert – 2PM

Durham – Durham University Music Concert Room

Workshop – 2PM

Concert – 7PM

]]>Dark Matter at Techfest Aberdeenhttp://scottwilson.ca/dark-matter-at-techfest-aberdeen/
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 04:47:14 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=421BEER will present Dark Matter at Techfest Aberdeen in collaboration with Sound Scotland on September 20th. Also doing a schools presentation on our sonfication app and a collaboration with local laptop ensemble Shift-Enter. 6:30 PM at Aberdeen Science Centre.

]]>Spectra Festival in Bogotáhttp://scottwilson.ca/spectra-festival-in-bogota/
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:27:09 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=415I’ll be a featured artist, alongside Annette Vande Gorne, Catalina Peralta, Rodrigo Sigal, Susan Campos, and Natalia Valencia at the second edition of the Spectra Festival in Bogotá, Colombia, 6-15 September. This will include a portrait concert, a SuperCollider workshop, and a BEAST/BLAST event. I’m very excited that the latter will include the world premiere of my long unperformed accordion and electronics work, Vivid, by Renato Marsiglia! Gratitude to the always amazing Jorge Garcia for making this happen!!

]]>Festival Klang!http://scottwilson.ca/festival-klang/
Thu, 24 May 2018 15:33:11 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=411I’ll be a featured composer at Festival KLANG! électroacoustique 2018 in Montpellier May 30th to June 3rd, hosted by the always amazing Julien Guillamat. My pieces Kelp Road, Böse, and Gotlandic Miscellanea will be presented alongside music by Julien, Gilles Gobeil, Jonty Harrison, Denis Smalley, Annette Vande Gorne, Steve Reich and others. I’ll also do some Dark Matter live coding, and a live performance of Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.

]]>Dark Matter in Istanbulhttp://scottwilson.ca/dark-matter-in-istanbul/
Thu, 03 May 2018 13:39:47 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=396Konstantinos and I will give a talk and performance about Dark Matter along with physicist Altan Çakir at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi in Istanbul at 17:00 on May 8th. İTÜ BISED Konser Salon. Thanks to MIAM for hosting!

Friday’s events will include performances by the always amazing Mari Fukumoto, including the UK premiere of my Music for Manic Machines in the 19:00 show.

]]>Kelp Road at Stanfordhttp://scottwilson.ca/kelp-road-at-stanford/
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:39:09 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=389Kelp Road will make an appearance Thursday April 19th, as part of the Pump up the Bings – CCRMA in The Bing Studio series on their wonderful immersive sound system.

]]>Imaginary Landscapes 2018http://scottwilson.ca/imaginary-landscapes-2018/
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:27:56 +0000http://scottwilson.ca/?p=385I’ll be contributing to this year’s Imaginary Landscapes at the Networked Imagination Laboratory in Hamilton in three ways: On Saturday April 14th, I’ll do a solo Dark Matter performance in the 8PM concert. On Monday the 16th, Kelp Road will make an appearance in the 4PM concert, and earlier in the day I’ll give a workshop on sonifying physics data for musical purposes.